Egypt: Protesters Outside Cairo's Constitutional Court

Egypt's Constitutional Court has made rulings on the presidential run-off and has cast doubt on the legitimacy of Parliament.(PHOTO ESSAY: Egyptians Protest Against Court Ruling )

Egyptian activists are accusing the military of a "soft coup" after the country's highest court ruled the parliament was illegal and allowed a Mubarak-era prime minister to continue his bid for the presidency. Several hundred protesters gathered outside Cairo's Constitutional Court on Thursday to protest against the ruling allowing Ahmed Shafiq to stand in the second round of the presidential elections.

Factions from groups including the Ultras, 6 April and Kefaya movement braved the searing sun to demonstrate against a candidate they see as part of deposed presidenty Hosni Mubarak's old regime.

Traffic on the Corniche El Nil road slowed to a trickle, until the army sealed off the road completely in response to small clashes that broke out when a taxi accidentally touched a protester.

Some protesters decided to take their protest to Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Others remained in situ, shouting slogans against the army and Shafiq throughout the day.

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  • ras sideeq
    Jun 15 2012, 09:46

    "MY BELOVED BROTHERS OF EGYPT THE TIME HAS COME TO PUT YOUR FAITH IN WHAT IT IS THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED". THE JEWS AND THE US HAS BEEN BUSY IN AFRICA AS THEY TRY DESPERATELY TO DESTROY THE REVOLUTION KEEPING THE MILITARY UNDER THIER CONTROL WHILE KEEPING ORDINARY CITISENS POOR AND DISENFRANCHISED". THE FACT OF THE MATGER IS THAT THIS REVOLUTION WAS THE BIGGEST DEFEAT TO THE US AND THEIR JEWISH FRIENDS THEY WERE TOTALY EMBARSSED AND LEFT FRIENDLES IN AFRICA. THIS THEY ARE NOW TRYING TO RECTIFY THEY WANT TO SEDATE THE COUNTRY WITH A YEMENI STYLE REVOLUTION WHICH THEY CAN GET ON THIER PROOGANDA MEDIA HAILING THIS A A GREAT REVOLUTION IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY. EVEN THOUGH THEY CLAIM TO KNOW EGYPTIAN HISTORY THEY KNOW NOT. THEY ARED ECIEVERS THEY WILL ALWAYS BE DECVIEVERS. THIER ALLIES THE JE3S ARE THE BIGGEST FAKES OF THE LOT THEY ARE NOT WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE AND THIS IS INDEED FACT. THEY MAINTAIN THE SAME PRINCIPLES OF WHOM THEY ACCUSE OF BEING BARBARIC TOWARDS THEM POLARISING PUTTING THEM IN GHETTOS DENYING THEM FREEDOM TAKING AWAY THEIR HUMANITY STEALING THEIR LIVES. WHAT WE SEE IN ISRAEL IS ZIONIST REVIVAL OF NAZISM WHERE THEY ARE THE SUPER RACE THEY ARE MOST SUPERIOR. EVERYONE ELSEIS INFERIOR TO THEM THEY WILL NOT AND MUST NTO MIX THEY ARE TOO SUPERIRO TO DILUTE THIER BLOOD. THIER ARE NORACES JEWS EXCEPT THEM THEY ARE CHOSEN. CHOSEN OF WHO? SATANTHAT IS WHO THEY HAVE NO TIES TO"ALL MIGHTY GOD" . I WANT EGYPT TO LOOK AT REALITY WHERE EXACTLY IS ISRAEL THESE LANDS OF BEEN BLACK AND BROWMN FOR ALL TIME IMMORTAL, THEY COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN THE PEOPLE FO ISRAEL SINCE THE PEOPLE FO ISRAEL WERE IDENTIFIABLY EGYPTIANS. WHEN THE CHILDREN FO THE "ONE GOD THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" WERE IN EGGYTP THEY DID NOT GO TO EUROPE TO GET MARRIEWD AND BRING THIER CHILDREN BACK TO AFRICA. IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE THEY WERE WHITE PEOPLE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE REMIAINED BLACK FOR LONG. WE ARE TALKINMG WAY BACK IN ANTIQUITY NOT FIVE THOUSAND YEARS THE PYRAMIDS CAN NOT BE TIMED AS TO GIVE A DEFINIVE DATE THAT IS A LIE A FALSE TEACHING THERE IS NO WAY THEY CAN TIME ROCKS OR STONE . WE MUST BELIVE WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC FACTS WE HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE THE BEGINNING WE ARE ALL PART FO AFRICA AS THE LANDS WERE AFRICA WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THESE GREAT IDENTITIES SINCE TIEM BEGAN WHICH IS IN THE MILLIONMS OF YEARS AS WE SEE THE EARLIEST OF MAN. SHOULD WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO BELIEVE THAT OK THEY WERE TOO EARLY WE KNOW THAT FOR A FACT HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. THESE PEOPEL ARE NO THAT OLD THEY ARE NEW TO THIS PLANET AND THEY ARE LIARS AND DECIVERS . HOW CAN WE BELIVE A PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE PEOPLE THEY LIVE AROUND DENYING EVERYONE ELSE THE RIGHT TO LIVE OR VISIT AND THEREIS NO CONNECTION TO ANYONE. THERE BEST FRIEND IS THE US A SLAVER AND OPPRSSOR A WICKED AND UNJUST PEOPLE. THEY HOLD THE SAME IDEOLOGIES THEY BELIVE IN THIER RACR SUPERIROITY THEY THEN USE LIES TRICKS TO DIVERT THE TRUTH OF WHO WE ARE AND WHAT THE PLANET WAS BASED ON. THEY HAVE CHANGED ALL THE LAWS MAKING WHAT IS RIGHT WRONG AND WHAT IS WRONG RIGHT!!!! THESE ARE IDOLATORS THEY ARE WICKED HYPOCRITICAL DIABOLICAL PEOPLE . THEY ARE WHOM ARE TRYING TO CREATE ENEMIES WITHIN THE MUSLIM PEOPLE OF THE WORLD THEY ARE TELLING AFRICANMS THEY ARE NOT ARABS THEY ARE ARABS AS MUCH AS THE PROPHET WAS ARABIC. WE MUST NOT LOOK AT COLOUR OR RACE TODAY WE MSUT LOOK AT UNIVERSAL VALUES OF TRUTH RIGHTEOUSNESS HONESTY INTEGRITY ETHICS THESE ARE THE VALUES WE SHOUDL UPHOLD. WE MUST DRIVE OUT CORRUPTION WE MUST ALLOW FOR PEOPLE TO LOVE "THE MOST HIGH GOD" MUSLIM MEANS TO SUBMIT TO ALLAH" THI SHOULD BE THE OBJETIVE OF ALL ;HOWEVER THIS IS NOT THE REALITY WE FACE TODAY, WHAT I SAY IS THAT THESE PEOPLE REGARDLES OF SECT OR DENOMINATION IF THEY TRULY BELIEVED THEY SERVE GOD THEN ALL WOULD BE WELCOME IIRRESPECTIVE OF COLOUR RELIGION AND NONE SHUN;"THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" ALONE WOULD BE FOCUSED" "TOMORROW IN EGYPT WE FACE A BIG CHALLENGE AND I SAY TO MY BROTHERS IS THSI GOING TO EB A FAIR AND EQUAL NATION WHERE VALUES I HAVE MENTIONED ARE THE CORE OF GOVERNMENT YES IT WILL!! WHY? THE PEOPLE WENT OUT IN THIER MILLIUONS AND CHOSE WHOM YOU THOUGHT WOULD SERVE THE COUNTRYS BEST INTEREST". WE SEE AS IS BEING SAID A SOFT COUP A COUNTER REVOLUTION. THIS MUST NOT BE THE PEOPLE ARE THE POWE IN THE NATION WITHOUT THE PEOPLE THERE IS NO NATION. THE MAJOURITY OF PEOPEL HAVE SPOKEN WHAT WE SEE IS THEY WHO ARE THE JEWS AND US DO NTO WANT THE STAUS QUO TO CHANGE. THEY ARE WORKINGFEVERISHLY WITH THEIR AUTOCRATIC FRIENDS WHOM ARE UNDERMINING THE PEOPLE FO SYRIA BOMING AND DISTABLISING IRAQ YOU MUST SEE ALL THESE THINSG AND THINK WIZELY. THE REVOLUTION WAS NEEVR OVER AS LONG AS THERE ARE THESE WICKED CRIMINALS ON THE PLANET "VIGILANTS IS A MUST" THE ELECTIONS MUST BE WON WITH THE ELCTION OF THE DR MORSI HE IS AREVOLUTIONARY AND WAS PART OF THE REVOLUTION. IT IS UP TO YOU REPRESENT AND MAINTAIN THE DECREE THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN. "FEAR NOT THE EVIL DOERS" SATAN WILL DISILLUSION YOU MAKING YOU BELIVE THAT YOU WRONG AND THAT HE HAS WON?? THIS IS NOT SO ;THIS IS ALL PART OF SATANS TRICKS AND BAGS OF ILLUSIONS DO NOT BE OVERCOME BY THE MAJIC. "THE BARRIER HAS BEEN BROKEN THERE IS NO GOING BACK" "FORWARD FOREVER ,BACKWARD NEVER" THE STRENGTH OF "OUR LORD " COULD NEVER BE TESTED "HE" WOULDNEVER ALLOW YOU TO FALL VICTIM TO SATAN ,THESE ARE THE TIMES WHEN YOU MUST KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!"" ' SATAN WOULD NEVER WANT YOPU TO ESTABLISH A NATION BUILT ON RRIGHTEOUSNESS" HE IS A DECIEVER HE WILL TRY TO BREAK YOU SO AS TO NOT ALLOW YOU TO SUCCEED IN YOUR OBJECTIVES. "WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE IS THE PEOPLE ALL THE PEOPLE COME OUT TO REITERATE YOUR STANCE FOR CHANGE AND THAT YOU THE PEOPLE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE EMPOWERED. THERE IS NO ARMY BIGGER THAN THE ARMY OF "OUR LORD" THERE IS NO POWER GRANDER OR GREATER THAN "OUR LORD" THERE ARE NO HUMAN BEINSG THAT CAN BECOEMMORE POWERFUL THAN "OURLORD" IT IS "HE" WHO GIVES TO THOSE WHAT "HE WILLS" IT WAS "HEALONE" WHO DECREED THAT THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE FREE OF TYRANNY OPPRESSIONM AND IT WAS "HE WHO DECIDES ALL THINGS " "WE MUST NOT FORSAKE "OUR LORD" FOR "HE " NEVER FORSAKES HIS OWN" "OURLORD" IS A TRUE LORD A HONEST LORD HE ENEVR GIVES AND TAKES AWAY ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE SINNED AND THERE IS NO FORGVING" THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT HAVE NOT DONE THESE THINGS; "THEREFORE DO NOT BE FAINT OF HEART" "THE LORD IS STILL YOUR GUIDE STAY TRUE TO WHAT IT WAS THE IDEALS THAT YOU STRIVED SO HARD TO ACHIEVE "BE FAITHFUL APPLY WIZE INTELLECT "TO WHAT YOU DO, PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT WHAT "THE LORD "HAS CHOSEN MAN CAN NOT MAKE UNCHOSEN" " "WE ARE THE RIGHTEOUSS PEOPLE OF THE WORLD AND WE MUST AT ALL TIMES BELIEVE" "GIVE NOT YOURSTRENGTH TO SATAN" "FIRE AN DESTRUCTION FOR ALL EVIL DOERS THE PIT IS THIER DESTINY"

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